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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, spear-devel@list.st.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/3] dmaengine: dw_dmac: Enhance device tree support
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:40:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1355301621.31620.66.camel@smile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKohpo=FjZuMOC-wuNc3q_FXbk546ttCLr55GkW9AL0Tz-HoBA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 08:30 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: 
> > * It requires slave drivers to know that they are using the dw_dmac
> >   driver and pass a pointer to dw_generic_filter, which is not
> >   generic at all
> >
> > * It requires the dmac node to have information about all slaves
> >
> > There are also some minor issues, such as the naming of DT
> > properties, but the above need to be resolved first.
> 
> I saw the binding document and it looks it can be applied to dw_dmac
> too, as there is nothing special for it.
> 
> The question is how? We are already late for merge window and this
> one is queued. Supplying a new patch, getting it reviewed/tested and
> being pulled by Linus is not so easy :)
> 
> Two ways:
> - Keep it as is, and i will fix it separately and quickly
> - Drop it :(
Will we survive if the patch is in mainline? I mean how big the impact
of it is?


-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-12  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-16  4:19 [PATCH V3 1/3] dmaengine: dw_dmac: Update documentation style comments for dw_dma_platform_data Viresh Kumar
2012-10-16  4:19 ` [PATCH V3 2/3] dmaengine: dw_dmac: Enhance device tree support Viresh Kumar
2012-10-26  8:55   ` Viresh Kumar
2012-10-26  8:48     ` Vinod Koul
2012-10-26  9:05       ` Viresh Kumar
2012-10-26  9:10         ` Vinod Koul
2012-12-10 22:08   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-10 22:21     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-12  3:00     ` Viresh Kumar
2012-12-12  8:40       ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2012-12-12  8:43         ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-08 23:09       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-12  8:42     ` Andy Shevchenko
2012-10-16  4:19 ` [PATCH V3 3/3] ARM: SPEAr13xx: Pass DW DMAC platform data from DT Viresh Kumar

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